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Polar bears eat ringed seals, so if baby seals keep dying off, eventually there will be a decline in the seal population, ...
OSAKA--A ringed seal pup near death after its birth earlier this year and saved by aquarium staff here is now thriving and wowed visitors with his public debut on Aug. 18. Tsubaki Nakajima ...
We found four different pups killed in this zone, it seemed the lairs had not given the seals very good protection. Then at lunch time, we spotted a bear on a freshly killed ringed seal pup. It was a ...
OSAKA--Breeding staff at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan here have been working around the clock to make sure a ringed seal pup that looked like he was going to die at birth bulks up. The male pup ...
The bearded seal ranges in color from silver gray to dark brown and has a distinctively robust body, square-shaped fore-flippers and two pairs of mammary glands for nursing pups. HABITAT: Bearded ...
These seals rely on the dispersed floes of the sea-ice front and fringe during winter and spring as a platform for birthing and nursing pups, as well as for molting and resting. RANGE: The spotted ...